Tag: Vaccines

Licensing agreements between pharmaceutical companies and the Medicines Patent Pool, in cooperation with the WHO, could accelerate access to doses for the poorest countries

  COVAX, the global vaccine distribution initiative, is well behind its goal of delivering 2 billion doses this year due to under-investment, vaccine nationalism and export restrictions

  Governments are naturally under pressure to focus on national rollouts. But the truth is none of us is safe until we’re all safe

  You’ve been vaccinated; can you now safely see your friends and family? New research hints that vaccinated people may be less likely to transmit the coronavirus, but

  Fair gobal agreements, home-grown vaccines and sharing extra doses with poorer nations are all needed if we’re to ever emerge from this pandemic

  Governments are naturally under pressure to focus on national rollouts. But the truth is none of us is safe until we’re all safe

The top scientific breakthrough for 2020 was understanding SARS-CoV-2 and how it causes COVID-19 – and then developing multiple vaccines

  If supplies of COVID-19 vaccine are initially limited, who should be vaccinated first? A mathematical model shows when and why it’s best to start with the young,

  Covid-19 vaccines: How Pfizer’s and Moderna’s 95% effective mRNA shots work

  Interim analysis of trial data isn’t unusual – but leaves us with many things we still need to find out

  With a vaccine, yes, elimination is possible. But we need to be realistic about how long this might take

History suggests diseases fade but are almost never truly gone

  An unprecedented level of research has gone into understanding the novel coronavirus. Here’s what we still don’t know Raphael Alves/EPA The pandemic has reached a grim milestone:

The COVID-19 vaccine is in the final stages of testing – meaning we should know whether it’s effective before the end of the year

  As grim as things are with the pandemic raging in the US and the mounting death toll, there are many reasons to be optimistic there will be